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Atomic Heart guide: Everything you need to know to survive Facility 3826

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Atomic Heart was one of the most anticipated new games for 2023 after a series of impressive gameplay trailers steadily built hype. With its alternate history timeline and world overrun with malfunctioning androids, it's easy to understand the potential. While the full game has divided opinion, the Atomic Heart Game Pass launch (alongside its release on PC, PS5, and PS4) means that plenty of you are looking to jump into the action.  

Below you'll find our full review of the game on PS5, as well as a smattering of Atomic Heart guides and tips to help you navigate (and survive) the dangers of Facility 3826. 

Atomic Heart review

While GamesRadar+ was undoubtedly impressed with the big ideas developer Mundfish puts forward, and the impressive visual direction throughout, our Atomic Heart review found that the execution is lacking. With its messy story and stroppy protagonist, flat combat and lifeless world, Atomic Heart isn't able to escape the shadow cast by the video games that so clearly inspired it. 

Atomic Heart release date

The Atomic Heart release date is February 21, 2023. The confirmed platforms for Atomic Heart are PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One. The new-gen console release features a steady 60 frames-per second performance and dynamic 4K resolution, while the PC version features additional graphical improvements such as real-time ray-tracing. 

Atomic Heart will be on Game Pass from day one. The news was confirmed at E3 2021 , when developer Mundfish and Atomic Heart were included as part of the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. That means that if you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, you'll be able to play the game as part of your membership from February 21 – and you can even go ahead and pre-install the game now through the service if you want to jump into the action at the first opportunity. 

Atomic Heart trailer

There have been plenty of Atomic Heart trailers over the years, although this most recent look at the game from earlier this year remains one of our favorites. Designed principally to show off the level of detail Atomic Heart can deliver when running in ultra-4K, this GeForce RTX Gameplay Reveal does a great job at selling the high-concept of the world and the potential of its fast-paced FPS combat. 

Enjoying the sights and sounds of Atomic Heart's world, but simply wish you could move a little faster through all those Soviet laboratories? Sadly, there is no Atomic Heart sprint functionality, though there is a way to improve your base movement speed. So click the link to find out how. 

The world of Atomic Heart is packed with enemies, resources, and easy-to-miss collectibles. Fear not because there is a way to spot key items in the environments, although you may have missed the tutorial on how to properly activate it. So join us as we explain how to use the Atomic Heart scanner . 

How the lockpicking puzzles work

Atomic Heart may give you free rein over its environments, but that doesn't mean that some areas aren't gated. There are a lot of lock and key mechanics that you'll need to circumvent, both to find rare resources and progress through the story. The thing is, the Atomic Heart lockpicking puzzles can be a little tricky. So if you need help opening doors in Atomic Heart, we've got just the guide for you. 

You might have noticed that the Atomic Heart FOV can't be changed in the settings. There's no option in the menus and, if you don't like the view you have, there's nothing you can so about it. Or is there? While there's nothing official, the Flawless Widescreen app will let you changes FOV on PC, so read our guide for the how to. 

You've probably seen the Atomic Heart telekinesis abilities on show in the trailer. It's a core part of the game with uses in combat and puzzle solving, so if you want to know more about how to get it, use it and upgrade it, we've covered all the basics for you. 

The Atomic Heart animal tank puzzle is one of the weirder challenges you'll have to face. And that's saying something in a game full of weird things. If you're having trouble working out what to do with all the cows, pigs and chickens however, we have the solution here. 

The Atomic Heart door code will come in handy when you reach the station master puzzle. It's a fairly simple thing when you know what's going on - there's a puzzle lock with lots of buttons to press and a code sheet somewhere you need to find to know what to press. We've broken it all down here.  

Atomic Heart is out now for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and Game Pass. If you're looking for other shooters like it, check out our recommendations for the best FPS games that you should play today. 

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If it looks like a BioShock and walks like a BioShock, it’s... probably an Atomic Heart . The alternate history shooter, developed by Mundfish and out now for PlayStation, Xbox, and Windows PC, has a lot in common with Irrational’s seminal series of alternate history shooters, but only in a superficial sense. Rapture, this is not. Here are eight things you should know before really diving into Atomic Heart .

Learn how to read highlighted items

You’ll constantly scan your environment in Atomic Heart , which helpfully highlights useful stuff in various colors. Blue indicates lootable containers; white indicates NPC or objects you can interact with (like save stations and computers); orange indicates enemies; and purple indicates key items related to the main mission you’re on.

Can you make that jump? Look at your hand

There aren’t many platforming sections in Atomic Heart , but the few that show up are clunky, plodding, and arduous — not the sort of thing you want to repeat. It’s not always easy to gauge whether or not you can make a jump, but there’s one simple tell that works 100% of the time: If your hand is held outward (as seen in the screenshot below), you can make it. If it’s not, you can’t. And yes, there’s fall damage.

You can reset puzzles

Opening locked doors in Atomic Heart means solving rudimentary lock-picking puzzles. These puzzles come in various types; you may have to time a series of button presses, for instance, or rotate an inner ring until its colors match that of an outer ring.

If you’re stumped on one specific puzzle, you can back out, then immediately jump back in to get a randomized variety of the same puzzle. More often than not, I’ve found the second roll easier than the initial one. There is no penalty for resetting, either: Sometimes you might have to solve a multipart puzzle, but in backing out, the game will acknowledge that you’ve solved the first part and start you at the second.

Oh, a heads up: Enemies can attack you while you’re trying to solve a puzzle. Make sure the room is clear first!

Your surplus loot automatically goes into storage

You can carry a limitless amount of every resource used for crafting. But you’re restricted in how many consumable supplies — med packs, ammo, that sort of thing — you can cart around. You manage what you carry not through monitoring slots or weight limits but through a derivative grid-style inventory (think: Deus Ex).

The rest goes into your permanent storage, which you can access by interacting with fridge-sized computers, called Nora, near most save stations. When you’re in the middle of a mission, you can clear extra space in your inventory by pressing R3 while tabbing over a specific item you don’t need to carry — that’ll send it to storage automatically. You can only get it back into your inventory by visiting a Nora unit, though.

By the way: The storage menu doesn’t tell you what each object is when you hover the cursor over it. But if you tab over to the “disassembly” view, you’ll be able to see information about what those items actually are.

Focus on one skill

In Atomic Heart , you can learn a handful of BioShock -inspired elemental skills. But the equipment process is limited (you can only have two equipped at once, and can only switch at Nora stations), and doesn’t incentivize using multiple skills. You’re better off picking one skill you enjoy and making it ridiculously overpowered than you are trying to incrementally power-up a little bit of each one.

You can’t go wrong with the frost skill

If you’re focusing on one skill, the frost one, Frostbite , is your best bet. By holding down L1/LB, you can freeze enemies in place for a short time with a steady stream of ice. Atomic Heart is at its most difficult when you’re getting overwhelmed by crowds. Frostbite allows you to manage those crowds. (Bonus: When you rank it up, frozen enemies will repeatedly take damage from being frozen.)

Level up the Electro pistol

Ammo is by no measure abundant in Atomic Heart (not exactly Resident Evil levels of scarce, but still notably less than you’d get in, say, a Fallout game). Energy weapons, like the Electro pistol, don’t use ammo; instead, they operate on a charged meter that recharges fairly quickly. Since the Electro pistol essentially has unlimited ammo, provided you take the time to let it recharge between combat encounters, you’re better off upgrading it over those that rely on how scrupulous you are at scrounging for bullets.

Becoming frustrated? Dial down the challenge

Atomic Heart is a maddening game, frustrating in ways that seem like the developers don’t even want you to play it. Switching to easy mode — called “Peaceful Atom” in the game’s parlance — mitigates some of the frustration, making it feel more like a traditional first-person shooter. Also, you’ll worry less about the fact that you can only save at save stations.

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Everything we know about Atomic Heart

Get acquainted with the future Soviet nightmare world of Atomic Heart.

In 2018, Atomic Heart emerged into the world through the baffling haze of its trailers, in a frenzy of superscience hyperviolence. Through years of delays, Atomic Heart remained a compelling mystery: What's with all the Soviet killer robots? What's the story behind this warped USSR utopia? Why are those mannequins being so horny?

After years of speculating, Atomic Heart is released into the open, and not without controversy . For our full thoughts on the game beneath all those surreal combat trailers, be sure to check out our Atomic Heart review . While you're here, here's everything we learned about Atomic Heart's surreal Soviet dystopia in the run up to release.

When is Atomic Heart's release date?

Atomic Heart released on February 20, 2023 .

While the release window was originally set and later confirmed as being in late 2022, an announcement that Atomic Heart would be published by Focus Interactive described the game as "initially planned for 2022." Around this time its Steam page changed from an explicit 2022 release date to the more vague "this Winter." But a trailer we finally confirmed Atomic Heart's exact release in February 2023.

Atomic Heart is a day one release for Xbox Game Pass.

Here's the latest Atomic Heart gameplay overview

Where earlier gameplay footage was content to show Atomic Heart's baffling combat violence and let us guess at the context, this latest gameplay overview is a change of pace: we actually get some stage-setting. In nine minutes of footage, we're pitched on Atomic Heart's alternate-history Soviet setting, and the reason why there are so many robots to shoot in all the gameplay trailers. (It turns out AI can turn evil. Who knew?) We get a look at the different sections of the USSR superscience facility you'll fight through to stop an android apocalypse—and at plenty of cutscene clips featuring some iffy lip-syncing and bafflingly American accents. The overview continues with a survey of the kinds of enemies you'll fight, the powers and weapons you'll wield against them, and the upgrades you'll find to modify your equipment. We're also told that there's "a cool grenade launcher."

What is Atomic Heart?

An alternate reality Soviet-era first-person combat game with killer robots, clown-themed torture chambers, and grandmas trapped in flowing molecular gloop. Yeah, it's weird. Its combat is a mixture of shooting and melee with improvised weapons, and the scarcity of ammo means you'll want to sneak through some areas, too. In revealed gameplay previews, between the maelstrom of things meeting violent ends, there are lots of combat options on display—all sorts of powers from the player's left hand, like telekinesis and ice jets, with equally varied weaponry in the right, including pistols, electrified rifles, and a pitchfork that's also apparently a big pair of scissors.

Our Atomic Heart preview tempered our hopes

After getting some hands-on Atomic Heart demo time in January, the impressions we gathered in our Atomic Heart preview weren't quite as high as we'd have liked. If you were hoping the raw weirdness of Atomic Heart's trailers would translate into a game of sober, psychological introspection on the history of Soviet socialism—as you should—you might want to start setting your expectations a little lower. Somewhere around the "quippy protagonist and repeated robot sex jokes" level. While we weren't hooked by what we saw of the narrative, the humor, and playstyle options in the demo, we'll see whether the remaining 90% of the game redeems its first impressions when it arrives in February.

What's the story? The premise?

The devs say the story is a bit like an episode of Black Mirror—if the show were set in a warped version of the Soviet Union sometime between the '30s and '60s. As Mundfish CEO Robert Bagratuni told IGN , the USSR still exists in this reality, "but a technical revolution has already taken place: robots, the Internet, holograms have already been invented ... all these innovations are submerged in the atmosphere of communism, confrontation with the imperialism of the West and all the other inherent political and social aspects of the time.”

Robots have been mass-produced to help with agriculture, defence, timber production and simple household chores—and now they're starting to rebel. You play Major Nechaev, a mentally unstable KGB special agent codenamed P-3, and the government has sent you to investigate a manufacturing facility that's fallen silent. 

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On arrival it's clear that everything is, to put it mildly, royally fucked. Robots are out of control, once-dead creatures walk again, and traps have been set to ensnare any who enter. It's your job to find out what's happened and put an end to the chaos. 

Somewhere between the murdering and madness is a love story, although we don't know how big a part it will play. Oh, and it'll have two endings even though the plot is linear .

Here's all the other Atomic Heart gameplay to watch

We've slowly accumulated a treasure trove of Atomic Hearts gameplay in the years since its announcement, most in the form of unsettling imagery and baffling combat violence. The release date trailer is packed with baffling, eerie, violent imagery. Massive facilities full of Soviet mannequins doing aerobics routines, flying men with fanged worms for heads, cyborgs doing lightning-hand high fives—it's all in there. And then a guy does middle fingers. If that doesn't satisfy you, there's more combat in the Game Awards 2022 gameplay trailer . And there are plenty of earlier gameplay trailers, too: at Gamescom 2022 we saw a gruesome Atomic Heart combat trailer which showcases bloodthirsty mutants, mischievous robots, the E3 2021 trailer featured killer robots and a ladle-bearing babushka. Further back, Mundfish published a 7-minute gameplay and mini-boss fight video, and in 2020 a quick gameplay teaser showed off some of Atomic Heart's retro-tech environments. Just before that, we also saw some footage courtesy of Russian gaming service 4game who played four hours of an in-development build . And back in 2019, Mundfish released 10 minutes of Atomic Heart gameplay with both the shooting and melee combat, as well as the weird world.

Atomic Heart will support RTX

In January 2021, Nvidia shared an RTX trailer for Atomic Heart to show off ray tracing and DLSS support. As ever, Atomic Heart still looks stunning. It's a really quick look that appears to show off the museum area we've seen in past videos along with a bit more melee and supernatural power combat.

A tech demo of its RTX and HDR was briefly available, but you can still watch a video of the tech in action below. The team is particularly happy with how it improves lighting and shadows, and says performance is holding up well.

Atomic Heart system requirements

Atomic Heart's Steam page lists both minimum and recommended system requirements. You'll need at least an i5 4460 / AMD FX-6300 CPU, 6 GB of RAM and a GTX 760 or R7 260x to run it. The recommended specs are an i7 3770, 8 GB RAM and a GTX 1060. 

However, there's a chance those are both placeholders: the game's website says it's "hard to tell exact requirements at the moment" (although it does say they'll be "modest"). 

Is Atomic Heart an open-world game?

It's not clear. The world encompasses "the entire Soviet Union—a vast circle, the borders of which reach the Arctic in the north, Altai Mountain in the south, and with plains, lakes and much more in the middle". Different areas of Plant 3826 will be spread "all over the map". You'll get some choice about the order you tackle them in.

In a 2018 interview , Mundfish CEO Robert Bagratuni told us that Atomic Heart was "conceived as an open-world game", but later declined to confirm that the map was fully explorable. When asked whether the world was seamless, he told Wccftech he couldn't yet answer. "Now, I can say that there will be many different biomes," he added.

We reckon it might be a series of connected levels spread out across a large map, Metro Exodus-style. It has a railway system to whisk you between different locations.

Atomic Heart will have a crafting system for makeshift weapons

Atomic Heart's weapons are makeshift, and you'll piece them together from "various metal parts, detached from robots or taken from the household appliances or fragments obtained during the game". It's not known exactly how the crafting system works, but the image above suggests there will be plenty of ways to boost your damage stats.

Weapons will include a railgun, a shotgun, an AK, something called a "meat grinder", and melee options like an axe and a hammer.

Will Atomic Heart support VR?

A 2017 teaser listed SteamVR and PSVR as release platforms for Atomic Heart, but Mundfish has since said the game won't get a full VR release. "There are no such plans now," it told Wccftech . "Maybe as we get closer to the game release, some elements of the game will be available in VR, but now it’s hard to say which and in what form."

Mundfish previously released a VR game called Soviet Lunapark VR that was set in the same universe as Atomic Heart, but it was removed from Steam. Anyone that had paid for Soviet Lunapark will get a free copy of Atomic Heart .

Atomic Heart development controversy

If you've been following Atomic Heart's development, you'll probably know that a bit of controversy bubbled up in January 2019 after a report—citing anonymous sources within Mundfish—told of mass layoffs and incompetency at the studio. A summary of the report, posted on a Russian gamedev-related Telegram channel (an instant messaging service), can be found on ResetEra .

The devs partially responded to these claims in a later interview with a Russian outlet. According to the (roughly) translated interview , they dispute the initial report, and say the game is far more polished than the Telegram channel claimed.

In its Wccftech interview, the team also moved to reassure fans about its development process. "[Our] experienced developers, who worked in large game companies like Ubisoft … are experts in making AAA games and complex subsystems such as online multiplayer, AI ecosystems, analytics and scoring systems and other complex and high-tech tasks," they said. 

"Also, we’re working closely with Epic Games and we stay informed about all the latest technologies and UE4 features before they actually get publicly available. Our partners from Nvidia help us in graphics and performance optimization. So, for all the reasons described above our game is being developed at the highest technical level."

Mundfish has provided development updates infrequently, although a Discord post—copied and pasted to Reddit —hinted at more regular updates going forward. The team has also opened a new office in Moscow, the Discord post said.

Samuel Horti is a long-time freelance writer for PC Gamer based in the UK, who loves RPGs and making long lists of games he'll never have time to play. 

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Atomic Heart is a closed world action-adventure role-playing game set in the alternate Soviet Union of 1955 at Facility 3826 . Science, equality and fraternity are the main symbols of Freedom in this reality. But what kind of effort does it take to build an ideal society? And what is the price of such a society? Civilian robots, designed to help people, rebelled against their creators. Terrible mutant monsters came to be as a result of secret experiments conducted by scientists.

Atomic Heart puts you in the shoes of a military investigator, P-3 . Your goal? Find out what happened at Facility 3826 while evading the mind-bending horrors spawned by the accident. Choose your best tactics for each unique opponent, starting with the special capabilities of the Polymer Glove and ending with heavy weapons of mass destruction. Combine your defensive capabilities and attacking skills, interact with the environment, and keep an eye on the enemy. A wide range of upgrades for all firearms and melee weapons will allow you to tear to pieces anything that gets in your way.

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How to Access All Testing Grounds in Atomic Heart

I don’t know about you, but when I am trying to stop the automated apocalypse, I like to stop and smell the flowers. And by that, I — of course — mean I like to stop what I’m doing and spend a couple of hours testing my physical and mental limits . There’s no rush, right ? I can’t imagine the big bad of Atomic Heart is on a timetable or anything.

In the automated wonderland that is Atomic Heart, there are places known as testing grounds . In these testing grounds, you can rack up rewards in exchange for completing challenges . But, in the immortal words of Viggo Mortensen, one does not simply walk into these testing grounds . What? That’s not what he said in the m—? Oh well. Read on to learn how to access all testing grounds in Atomic Heart!

It would seem that there are eight testing grounds total in Atomic Heart. But, if you expected them to be numbered logically … you’re in the wrong place, my friend.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 1

In order to access the first testing grounds, navigate to the appropriate area on your map and interact with the nearby tower. This will allow you to hack the camera, which will, in turn, allow you to open the door to this first testing ground.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 2

In much the same way that you unlocked the first testing ground, you’ll need to hack another camera to unlock the doors to the second one.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 6

I’m beginning to feel like a broken record. Navigate to the area on your map designated as testing ground 6, hack the camera, and open the door.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 8

It should first be mentioned that the building where the eighth testing ground is located is locked . It will automatically be made available once you’ve reached a certain part of the story. This process might seem somewhat familiar, but pay close attention because the differences are crucial.

To access testing ground 8, you need to climb to the top of the designated building. As in other iterations, there will be a device to hack cameras, so do so. You will need to hack three different cameras and deactivate a series of white, oval-shaped devices. This will unlock an elevator located within the building that, when activated, will transport you where you need to go.

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How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 9

This one is kinda a doozy. To access testing ground 9, you’ll need to enter the sewers near the testing facility. There’s an open manhole you can use as your entrance. Navigate through the sewers, eliminating any and all threats that cross your path. In due time, you’ll reach an open area with a locked door that you can open after a brief puzzle. Take note of the tubes lining the ceiling.

In this room, you’ll find a box filled with glowing orbs. Take a moment to look back at the door and you’ll notice the end of a tube from the aforementioned tube system. Grab an orb and input it into this tube. Your next goal is to guide four of these orbs through the tube system until they reach the four boilers. Thankfully, all four boilers are in the room you just left, so they aren’t very far.

After completing this segment, head back to the outside world and find the console needed to hack the cameras, and open the door to this testing ground. It’s located in the wooden building to the left of the statue, if you’re having trouble locating it .

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 10

In the vicinity of this testing ground, you’ll find a farmhouse that you can climb. Located on the second floor is a console that you can use to — once again — hack a camera. Use it to bring an elevator up from the nearby pigsty, and take it down to reach testing ground 10.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 11

To reach this penultimate testing ground, there are a few steps . But, thankfully , not as many steps as in the ninth testing ground, so … I count this as a win. To start, bring the Hawk down for maintenance. Then, as soon as it’s down, you need to climb atop of it. I sure hope you aren’t afraid of heights! Use the zipline to reach the area surrounding testing ground 11.

Before you head in, however, you’ll need to procure a disc-based key from a locked cabin in the area. As soon as you’ve acquired said key, head for testing ground 11 and unlock the door leading to the elevator.

How to Reach Polygon Testing Ground 12

OK, home stretch . To reach this final testing ground, head for the designated area on your map. You’ll find the elevator leading to this testing ground inside a cavern along the nearby beach. It’s well hidden, but as long as you’re aware of the general area, you should have no problems finding this elevator.

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Atomic Heart Polygon 12: access and puzzles solutions and walkthrough

Polygon 12 in Atomic Heart is the only testing ground that contains a boss fight. If you are having difficulties solving this polygon, feel free to check out the tips as well as a video walkthrough we've prepared for you. 

To solve Polygon 12 in Atomic Heart , the latest RPG shooter from Mundfish , you will have to wait a bit. This polygon will be accessible by the end of the game when you gain access to the bridge after the theatre section.

You will not have to finish the "Infirmary" mission, only to start it, as this will grant you access to the area where this testing ground is located.

Atomic Heart's testing grounds, or polygons, are regions where you may put your puzzle-solving talents to the test with magnetic puzzles, parkour sections, platforming skills, fight encounters, and more. The blueprints for numerous weapons and weapon upgrades that you may use on the weapon vendors scattered across the world of Atomic Heart will be your prize for completing these testing grounds.

We will present a few tips for finishing Polygon 12 in this guide, so if you are experiencing problems, feel free to reference our guide as well as the video walkthrough.

Polygon 12 assess and puzzle tips

To access the polygon entrance, you will have to first descend to the beach level, where you will encounter a couple of laborer robots, two cameras, and two sprout mothers. If you decide to fight them, it will take you a lot of time and resources, so the best way is to avoid this fight entirely.

Once you reach the testing ground, it is business as usual: some magnetic puzzles, and the first reward is yours. For the second reward, however, a serious fight awaits. NAT-256 Natasha robot will be the obstacle you must overcome in order to pass through the second part of Testing Ground 12, and this fight will not be an easy one. 

Other than Natasha, several really annoying owls will continually launch rockets at you, making your life impossible; therefore, we recommend lowering the difficulty here if you are not hunting for the difficulty-related trophy.

The last part of polygon 12 will require some serious thinking to be done by combining magnetic puzzles with fire candles. If you are having a hard time solving this part of the polygon, consult our video guide. 

The rewards for completing Polygon 12 will be:

• Bronze - KS-23 (thermal scope)
• Silver - Kalash (electromagnetic stock), Fat Boy (revolver loading module)
• Gold - Electro (energy vampire module), Pashtet (reflex blade)

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Atomic Heart: How to Enter (and Complete) Testing Ground 1

Enter Testing Ground 1 and acquire valuable weapon upgrades in Atomic Heart.

While exploring the open world of Atomic Heart players will find many testing grounds scattered across Facility 3826. These optional testing grounds are mini-dungeons filled with puzzles and valuable blueprints. The unique blueprints can be found in bronze, silver, and gold loot robots as players progress through the various test chambers. Blueprints allow players to upgrade weapons in specific ways at vending machines. Without these blueprints, many weapons and extra abilities cannot be used in Atomic Heart . One of the first testing grounds that players can enter is Testing Ground 1 located northeast of the train station. Follow this walkthrough to enter and complete the trials in Testing Ground 1.

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Unlock Testing Ground 1

When players make it to the entrance they will find the front door locked.

Head west from the door to find a spiral staircase nearby. Climb the stairs and activate the terminal. This allows players to hack the cameras in the area. Find the correct camera and hit RB/R1 to unlock the door. Players can now enter and use the elevator to descend into Testing Ground 1. Players will enter a type of magnet puzzle room that is featured in many testing grounds and laboratories in the main story.

Puzzle Room #1

This room is simple to navigate. Hop over the red row of magnets to the center of the room. Look up through the broken ceiling to use the Shok glove ability on the magnets above. This will shift the wall in front downwards and reveal the exit door. Another wall will slowly block the exit. Walk forward and look up to see a new separate group of magnets on the ceiling. Use Shok on them to open the exit.

Puzzle Room #2

This magnet room looks daunting at first glance. Ignore the large magnet columns and drop to the blue elevated magnet strip right below the entrance. Walk along it and jump to the non-magnetic platform. Look to the right to see the overhang. Drop to the blue magnetic strip on the ground. Use Shok on the ceiling magnets to raise the blue strip while standing on them. Hop off the strip to the overhang then to the exit stairs. Make sure to double-tap the B/Circle button while jumping for extra jump range.

Bronze Chest

Follow the corridors until there is a vent.

Navigate the vents and drop to a hall with three doorways. The door on the left is a safe room. The farthest door down the hall holds the Bronze Chest.

Loot it to receive the Fox-Handle Blueprint.

Thermal Room

Save and enter the final door to find the thermal room. There are a few standard white jumpsuit guards and small robot enemies. Destroy them and walk to the end of the room to find a hallway blocked off by a truck. Enter the nearby corridor to find a hole in the wall.

The door to the left is another save room and the office is filled with desks to loot.

Silver Chest

Save and move on to the magnetic doorway. Use the glove to open it and follow the tinkling piano music down the hall to find the next chest.

Loot the Silver Chest to acquire the MP Expansive Converter Blueprint.

Backtrack to the magnet door and flip it back in place from the other side. Doing so will reveal a new path.

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Puzzle Room #3

This is the most complicated room in Testing Ground 1.

Jump to the red magnetic platform directly to the right of the entrance.

Jump to the red magnetic strip dividing the room. The exit door is locked and using the scanner will highlight the cable leading down to the red platform near the ground.

Drop to the floor and climb up that lower red platform. Activate and solve the laser puzzle on the wall.

• Move the laser on the left-bottom part upwards to the middle row.
• Move the intersection piece downward away from the middle row, so the laser can reach the end.

Leave the platform and stand on the blue magnet platform on the other side of the laser wall. Use Shok on the ceiling magnets to lift the platform and jump to the exit.

Move through the remaining hallways to find the end of Testing Ground 1. There is a save room on the right and the Gold Chest on the left.

Loot the chest to gain the KS-23 Extended Magazine Blueprint and Zvezdochka Reverse Shot Blueprint. Use the elevator to return to the surface after completing Testing Ground 1.

Atomic Heart is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Atomic Heart Tour Guide Students – Where to Find Them

This is where you can find the missing students

The Tour Guide side quest is an unmarked quest in Atomic Heart. It immediately starts after conversing with the Dead Tour Guide. She is dismayed not knowing the fate of the students she was responsible for. If the player chooses, they can go out of their way and ease the passing of the tour guide.

In this guide, we’ll tell you where you can find the missing students within the exhibit halls. There are no quest markers for this one, so you’ll have to rely on your eyes (and your scanner) to look for them. At the very least, you can look around for them while you are looking for Clair’s body parts.

Atomic Heart Tour Guide Student Locations

There are four students in total . There is one Vavilov, Pavlov, and such. In short, there is a student in every room a part can be found .

First Student Location

The first student can be on the second floor of the botanical garden exhibit. He was hiding in a corner when the robots found him. He even expected us to save in exchange for a reward from his father. Too bad, his son is dead now.

Second Studen Location

The second student can be found at the top of the facility. Right next to the power relay, to be exact. He was trying to solve the wall puzzle, but he couldn’t solve it, so the robots got him. But it’s not like it’s any better on the surface where more robots would have been waiting for him.

Third Student Location

The second student is at the Sakhalin Exhibit. The body is right next to the mutant growths near the doorway. Apparently, she planned on ending herself after she and her boyfriend broke up but realized it was silly ending things over a breakup. It was a moot point though the robots beat her to it.

Fourth Student Location

The fourth student’s corpse is located in the medical wing. Inside one of the exhibits. She was analyzing her cause of death when we came across her body. She’s too far gone to make any sort of sense of her surroundings.

Atomic Heart Tour Guide Quest Reward

When you have found all four students, report back to the tour guide to her the news. It won’t be good news but at least she knows now the fates of the students under her charge. Now let’s talk about your rewards.

If asked about if she knows any codes that could lead to a secret cache, she apologizes about not knowing any secrets on account of her being a mere tour guide. If anything, the quest puts you one step closer to getting the “Talking to Every Dead” trophy. It’s not much but it’s something.

And that’s all there is to the Tour Guide’s Last Tour. Don’t worry agents, it was the thought that counts. And the trophy, definitely the trophy.

Check out this video from Youtuber Manugames92 where they show us the locations of the dead students.

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System Requirements

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 (20H1 version or newer, 64-bit versions)
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel Core i5-2500
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 DirectX: Version 12
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 90 GB available space
• Additional Notes: 30 FPS, 1920x1080 in low
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-7700K
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: : 8 GB VRAM, AMD RX 6700 XT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
• Additional Notes: SSD recommended, 60 FPS, 1920x1080 in ultra

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